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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.0.999.0801072316440.16143@be1.lrz>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:27:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
rol@...be.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe
> > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of
> > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
> > for those systems should be enough.
> >
>
> There might have been a few 386/20's clocking the ISA bus at ÷3
> (6.67 MHz) rather than ÷2 (10 MHz) or ÷2.5 (8 MHz).
Yes, and the remaining users should set the kernel option. Both of them.
The question is: How will they be told about the new kernel option?
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